newly-elected Chancellor Adolf Hitler and the growing influence ofthe antisemitic policies of the Third Reich throughout Germany.

This unreasonable, satanic-inspired hatred,born of ignorance and superstition, as well asthe deliberate taking of scripture out of contextto justify the systematic persecution of the Jews

in Europe for many centuries, would eventuallyculminate into one of the most greatest andhorrific tragedies the world has ever seen.

In Hebrew, it is called, "Ha'shoah" a word of biblical origin which means, "destruction".This dark episode of World War II history is better remembered as the Holocaust.

"Do you know what it's like to spend every waking

moment of your life simply thinking how to stay alive?...

The first thing I did every morning was say the Shema,

the Hebrew prayer acknowledging God's oneness..."

"I Am A Victor"

The Mordecai Ronen Story

By Mordecai Ronen

(2015)

Overcome with emotion, Holocaust victim and author Mordecai Ronen returns to Auschwitz Concentration Camp, now a museum in Poland. He was only eleven years old when he and his parents and sisters were sent to the death camp by the Nazis.

He was the only member of his family to survive imprisonment there.

Never again?

But it is happening again.In one of the most unexpected places.

In the wake of the violent protests and senseless terror attacks of the past weeks, under

a heavy police presence, Israelis and Jews from all over the world commemorate Tisha B'Av by visiting the Old City of Jerusalem's Temple Mount Compound.

While Jews and other non-Muslims are permitted to visit the area, they are prohibited

from praying there. Only Muslims are permitted to pray inside the compound.

This decades old arrangement enforced by Israel makes no sense to me at all.

The Temple Mount is the most holiest of all places to the Jewish people.